Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-24
OR MADMAN.
STRANGE, HORRIBLE CRIME IN PARIS.

r.--,,le Vengeance Of a Discarded
ne An Innocent Man, Accused. of the
Lo,,chery, Commits Suicide.
,...a ,or The Cincinnati Enquire from The
sssllss'eSqf Guy DeMaupassant. BY y. G. waggener.
''r,oyou remember, said b., the cele-
~, advocate, to me. the other night
Y. tragedy that was developed in the
rs.r, Of Assizes some ten years ago,
~, one of the most beautiful and
',shrated actresses of Paris was muir
,..ed presumably by her lover, Baron
ussly. a youth scarcely twenty-ii five
ssys Of agep 1t made terrible ex-
s,.neut at the time, for he was alone
s,,b Clotilde-she had sent away her
Tame de chambre for the evening
ND he sworc that. when he awakened
!, the morning. he found her lying by
"a aide. bathed in blood, and with a
dagger planted in her bosom. In spite
f,bis. however, and of his persistent
...ertions of innocence. he was arrest
a and given preliminary hearing
,sfore the tribunal in 1856, but poison
a himself before the case came to trial
for fear Of conviction.
well, a key to the enigma is believ-
"A N have been found in the revela-
IONS. or rather the notebook, of a
..dnap. who. after years of treatment
sdll alternates between bursts of furj-
an rage and sullen, stolid silence. The
s,ory IS a strange one" Is continued.
.apd goes to show
THE FATAL NATURE OF THE PATH
Trodden BY Partisan youths.
"However, the diary was only placed
in my hands to obtain, if possible, a
LEGAL opinion of the mans moral as well
wsjegal responsibility: in other words.
,hs Raoul de G. will be taken from
,be asylum to the guillotine should nv
descision coincide with the physicians,
that If the murderer as he is now
considered TO be, is at times, and was
when the murder was done, a reason
inc and rational being. regarding him
with the eyes of the law and from the
standpoint of the physicians expert
encc with him, he should pay with his
own life for the life which he took, and
for the other one which he was equally
instrumental in taking Evervth,no
hinges upon the actual mental condi-
ton of this man when he struck the
blow. Did he or did he not really be-
lieye in the cond ton of things 1.-THE
Importance as well as impossiblity of
dec ding this You can see for YOURSELF
as stated BY him on the evening of the
crime and described by him in the
notes of this diary? Was is it a GEM
inc halucinaton under which he labor
ed on the night in question, a mental
obliqu ty absolute and sincere, or a
man well and boldly conceived. led I'D
to a conversational denouement by the
natural accidents of convivial gather
Ing, and for the purpose of avertinp
suspicion by the reckless frankness of
bis course?
Perhaps, believe, he intended to
create doubt of his sanity. but listen
and tell me what you Think And b.
proceeded to unfold and adjust the
leaves of memoranda which he had
taken from a drawer at his side.
"Mons. de Z. dairy" said he. '.be-
ginning on the evening of the crime.
and corroborated in detail by several of
Mons. de g. companions and guests;
out shall give it to you as | arranged
It for the sake of conven ence in the
form Of Il narrative.
The night was n clear and bitterly
cold one in December. l8-, and.
though close upon two o clock in the
morning. a party of five or six Young
men had just finished supper in one OF
the prvatAand sumptuously furnished
cabinets of the Maison Doree. The
Aapk rs thrown upon the table, the
ends OF half-consumed cigars living in
llelr ashes, the empty plates and
nquor-g asses stained with the lees of
Aummel and Chartreuse, all bore evil
Gence that the hour of separation and
ihe last eareless goss p was near at
nana. In short, it was the moment,
awa's attendant upon strong wine,
Tor condolences and ,iiyulsences. rever-
s ,es and avowals, when each one has
MS word to say. and the most secret
thoughts escape with the smoke of the
Flor de Habana.
II had to-day" said one of the
teVeIerS to his neighbor, "lhe sixty
thousand francs which / lost ut the
oeree Yesterday, I'd 90 out at once
ana ID in the stud of R;chardiere to
70 De sold under the hammer tomorrow.
as 1t is, I've barely sufficient to ma H.
IAN respectable valet and pair of
loaaerS How is it with you, Henri?
al Top water. as usualo"
les, replied the other, II think
an' lor I've made more than one good
aaui THIS week, and lost only twenty
thousand francs"
How much d Id YOU oainP"
BOUTS"
And your father?"
Fre'tty well, thank you. and solid
% She leaning tower"
oiie however, in the crowd of
+, LAUGHING, TESTING YOUNGSTERS
nolu himself aloof from these noisy
ooo,,nLuences; half reel ng up on an
ottoman near them absorbed in thought.
a anu WIN his eyes fixed upon the velvet
o w through which shone the rays
49, -" rising moon, his lips moved
a Time to time without making in
arusnlate sound.
p.o "nat are you dreaming about,
"vu'' cried one of the clatterers
ao .as' noticing his strange abstraction;
NJ sohe' let lis into Your secret and tell
40 .' %aat you are tn mixing about"
,s, lie responded, | Ike man half
Sieep, Il anu thinking of nothinU."